MORGANTON, N.C. — A third large Confederate flag is now flying along a North Carolina interstate as the Sons of Confederate Veterans say they are flying the rebel banner because in other places in the South, Confederate memorials are being removed.

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The Confederate flags fly on poles on private property but are easily seen from the highway.

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Smith said Confederate groups are trying to get a flag up for every Confederate memorial taken down, like the statue to Southern general and early Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest which was removed in Memphis, Tennessee, last month.

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+++++++++“In the outside world, I'm a simple geologist. But in here .... I am Falcor, Defender of the Alliance” --Randy Marsh

“The most effectual means of being secure against pain is to retire within ourselves, and to suffice for our own happiness.” -- Thomas Jefferson

You might find my comments a little off the line, but my opinion of SCV has dropped 3 or 4 notches in the past few years, and am totally disappointed in them.

Rather than take the fight to the offenders, they took the politically correct "soft speak" as a response. The SCV should have taken the lead much earlier in this fight, and blown off any chants of racism. As I understand there were several legal options that could have been taken to save some of these monuments, but the SCV chose not to fight.

90-95% of members I know are absolutely not racist, and have a love of southern culture, and want to honor their ancestors who served to protect their homeland. To anyone who thinks otherwise, provide a sane response, and I will respond.

SCV's efforts in simple terms..... Too Little ...Too Late.

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I display the Confederate Battle Flag in honor of my great great great grandfathers who spilled blood at Wilson's Creek and Shiloh. 5 others served in the WBTS with honor too.

There are no "Socialists", no "Progressives", only Communists, with every negative image that totalitarianism might muster, demanding fealty and conformity to their views, with a legacy of 150,000,000 dead and counting.

We've had a local giant Confederate battle flag flying over our nearby interstate for years.

Since the hysteria of the last couple of years, the owner on the private land added a bunch of monuments, a ton of 3'x5' confederate flags and a giant halogen spotlight for the giant confederate flag he has flying there.

Not a guy to try messing with by sneaking onto his land to take the flags down.

On good authority - he has a .50 Cal BMG mounted to the bed of his Chevy.

...Obsta principiis—Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon [the] American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour." - John Adams, February 6, 1775

I'd expect a Rat sympathizer like you to come to the defense of 1861 Baltimore. It was definitely your kind of town as it is today.

Invading Yankee armies in a peaceful state. I'm with the rioters (not gibsmedats, but business owners), but my roots in that colony, and later, State and then OCCUPIED State go way back. Baltimore was respectable until the Yankees came in and trashed the place and made it what it is today.

There are no "Socialists", no "Progressives", only Communists, with every negative image that totalitarianism might muster, demanding fealty and conformity to their views, with a legacy of 150,000,000 dead and counting.

Invading Yankee armies in a peaceful state. I'm with the rioters (not gibsmedats, but business owners), but my roots in that colony, and later, State and then OCCUPIED State go way back. Baltimore was respectable until the Yankees came in and trashed the place and made it what it is today.

It went to hell when the relocated the Capital back to Baltimore/DC with the passing in 1790 ofthe Residence Act.

Personally the should have left it in Philly. It was a shithole then as it is now.

These are the type of people who if you tell them to stop, they do it more. At some point it stops being about the Confederacy anymore and becomes a symbol of rebellious spite (for which the Confederate flag is an admittedly fitting symbol).

It's no coincidence that these types probably voted for Trump in huge numbers.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is what real resistance looks like—standing in the face of a people and society that tells you you can't think that way, and doing it anyway.

For better or worse.

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The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. It may just be that I have two enemies.

You might find my comments a little off the line, but my opinion of SCV has dropped 3 or 4 notches in the past few years, and am totally disappointed in them.

Rather than take the fight to the offenders, they took the politically correct "soft speak" as a response. The SCV should have taken the lead much earlier in this fight, and blown off any chants of racism. As I understand there were several legal options that could have been taken to save some of these monuments, but the SCV chose not to fight.

90-95% of members I know are absolutely not racist, and have a love of southern culture, and want to honor their ancestors who served to protect their homeland. To anyone who thinks otherwise, provide a sane response, and I will respond.

SCV's efforts in simple terms..... Too Little ...Too Late.

I'm a lifelong Yankee who even lived in Boston for a while and I agree.

The hubbub over the confederate flag was ridiculous. There was even a Confederate memorial on an island in Boston, which memorialized some confederate POWs, that most likely nobody had seen in 50 years. But of course once people found out about it they were outraged and it had to be removed.

Take a boat to Georges Island in Boston Harbor, and you'll see something you might not expect: a Confederate monument.

Actually, right now you won't see it. The stone, the only Confederate monument in Massachusetts, has been boarded up since June while the state figures out what to do with it — a question that has new urgency in the wake of last weekend's violence in Charlottesville.

Before the PC hysteria broke about this subject, nobody had noticed or cared about this memorial in the slightest. Once people found out well that just could not stand.